CONTENTS

FEATURES

18 A life with badgers

COVER STORY

Photographer Laurie Campbell is now an honorary sett member

28 Britain before farms

COVER STORY

To understand and save our declining farmland birds we must look to when mammals shaped the landscape

32 The secret world of limpets

They've puzzled scientists for years – we reveal the high-tide habits of limpets

40 Dugong challenge TORY

COVER STORY

A Red Sea conservation project is saving the habitat of these majestic herbivores

62 Butter ies are back

COVER STORY

An ambitious conservation project has reintroduced chequered skippers to their former English stronghold

70 The name game

COVER STORY

What do bird names actually mean and where did they come from? Discover the people who created them

76 Photo story: the Savute

Channel and its wildlife James Gifford documents the behaviour of animals in Botswana

COVER STORY

56 News: Following the rules?

Two judicial reviews relating to badger culling policy in the UK are due

4 BBC Wildlife

Visit us! At the BBC Wildlife

stand at BBC Countryfile Live

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WILD NEWS

Keep up to date with the big nature stories and latest wildlife discoveries

49 News

It takes more than a volcanic eruption to beat a colony of crested auklets

51 Conservation report

How the Sumatran tiger is faring

53 Meet the Scientist

Vladimir Dinets from Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology

55 Truth or Fiction?

Are great white sharks really harming dolphins in UK waters?

61 Mark Carwardine

Conservationists are being killed for protecting wildlife

July 2018